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Family Myobatrachidae

These frogs are known as the Southern Frogs and
are sometimes placed in the Leptodactylidae family, a family of frogs found
in both South and Central America. (This is a matter of some controversy
among herpetologists). In Australia, they are represented by over 100 species
in 21 genera.

The family Myobatrachidae is an extremely variable
one and members of this family have some of the world's most unusual frog
life cycles. Some lay eggs on land, waiting for rains to flood the area
at which time the tadpoles hatch. The Sandhill Frog gains its water from
damp sand and lays eggs which hatch into fully formed frogs. Perhaps most
spectacularly, the Gastric Brooding Frog, an entirely aquatic frog, swallows
its eggs to incubate them in its stomach and vomits forth fully formed
froglets.

The family Myobatrachidae is represented in Victoria
by 22 species in 10 genera, ranging from the tiny Sloane's Froglet, Crinia
sloanei, at little over 20mm, to the Great Bullfrog, Limnodynastes
interioris, and the Great Burrowing Frog, Helioporus australiacus,
at up to 100mm.

The life cycles and habits of Victoria's Myobatrachids
are more diverse than those of the hylids. Many are burrowers, some are
swamp dwellers, and one lives only above the snow-line.

Question 6

Belly either: [1] mottled
or flecked with dark pigments on white or light grey; [2] with little or
nor markings; [3] orange or yellow often mottled with darker pigment; or
[4] brown with large lighter spots.